单词 | designed |
释义 | designedadj. That has been designed (in various senses of design v.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > [adjective] > appointed by nomination > but not installed designed1581 designate1646 elect1726 designated1868 1581 W. Allen Apol. Two Eng. Colleges f. 114 To be pronounced blessed by his owne mouth, to be of that designed number of elect persons. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Num. viii. Comm. Their designed offices. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 33 His two designed Generals. a1664 M. Frank LI Serm. (1672) 487 If Rebecah descend from her Camel, and veil her face at the sight of her designed husband, [etc.]. 1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome ii. 28 He was designed Consul for next Year. 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) Suppl., at Bishop Bishop designed, episcopus designatus. 1800 J. Hoole tr. P. Metastasio Achilles in Scyros (Dramatis Personae), in Dramas & Other Poems II. 2 Theagenes, Prince of Chalçis, the designed husband of Deidamia. 1880 M. Dods Isaac, Jacob, & Joseph 31 Let her who stumbles on the first step of the well be the designed wife of Isaac. 2. Planned, intended. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > performed with intention bethoughtc1200 expressa1400 wilfula1400 purposedc1422 purpensed1436 malice prepensed1454 aforethought1472 studiedc1475 setc1485 voluntary1495 deliberate?1527 willing1550 witting1553 propensed1560 fore-intendeda1586 affected1586 designed1586 determinate1586 intended1592 deliberated1594 uncasual1614 recollecteda1616 resolved1624 industriousa1628 intentionate1631 pre-intended1636 advised1642 malice prepense1647 sedentary1647 propense1650 consultive1651 (crime, evil, etc.) of forethought1692 conscious1726 intentionala1729 systematic1746 studious1750 systematical1750 prepensive1752 advertent1832 self-conscious1832 volitive1839 designful1852 purposeful1853 purposive1864 thought-controlled1926 1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 180v Fortifying my designed purpose. 1651 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Sir Walter Rawleigh's Ghost 122 Operations..most congruently and orderly directed to their designed ends. 1714 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements (rev. ed.) Pref. A Size beyond the design'd Proportion. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Jan. (1965) I. 291 Makeing my design'd return a mystery. 1803 Monthly Mag. July 516/1 This Feast of Fools..had its designed effect. 1865 J. B. Mozley 8 Lect. Miracles vii. 291 (note) That this failure..should be designed. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 18 Mar. 4/1 [A] propeller..working at its designed speed. 2008 S. Coonts Assassin II. ix. 183 I felt something under my feet—a mat. For wiping shoes. I put it to its designed use. 3. Of a structure, work of art, product, system, etc.: drawn, outlined; conceived or formed according to design, or a design. Frequently with modifying adverb.Earliest in well-designed adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [adjective] > drawn > in specific manner well-drawn1558 superficial1603 monogrammala1620 designed1624 side-drawna1657 monogrammical1686 monogrammic1721 monographic1731 outlined1798 free-hand1841 hand-drawn1850 matchstick1951 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 86 Therefore first (to beginne with Picture) we are to obserue whether it bee well drawne, (or as more elegant Artizans tearme it) well Design'd. 1756 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (new ed.) II. ii. 42 Compleating of a well-designed damask pattern. 1813 Q. Visitor Dec. 165 The further we advance in the scale of nature,..in the same proportion, a designed and studied mechanism is apparent. 1841 R. W. Emerson Thoughts on Art in Dial Jan. 369 An oak-tree..being the form in nature best designed to resist a constant assailing force. 1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House III. xxviii. 107 His sketch..the hastily-designed and partly-coloured ébauche. 1953 M. Kline Math. in Western Culture xxiv. 388 In a designed and orderly universe, life has meaning and purpose. 1971 Daily Tel. 2 Aug. 20/5 A specially-designed percussion drill similar to a jack-hammer. 2000 Victorian July 27/1 Even this [listing] has not been enough to save this valuable part of Birmingham's architectural heritage from..poorly-designed extensions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1581 |
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